Tom is right. The truncation is standard documented behaviour. It all goes via the internal implementation of TRUENAME (http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/rbinter/id/50/31.html) where the path is converted to its fully qualified version. quote: "letters are uppercased, forward slashes converted to backslashes, asterisks converted to appropriate number of question marks, and file and directory names are truncated to 8.3 if necessary." There are 2 128-byte buffers at very specific locations in the DOS DS, one for almost everything and the second for RENAME destinations. Deviate from those 2 and you'll get compatibility issues quite quickly.
FD kernel's truename implementation is careful about the 128-byte limit, if there is not enough space it returns an error, it does not overflow as far as I can see. This is all in the somewhat funnily named file newstuff.c: https://github.com/FDOS/kernel/blob/master/kernel/newstuff.c Bart _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
